Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Katie- TP2

I meet with Soe-Soe and I went through some practice passages in a TOEFL practice book .She wanted to work on reading so I skimmed my text book and tried some of the techniques it suggested to use to help improve the reading skills of a language learning. Soe-Soe practiced skimming, comprehension questions, and ambiguity tolerance. I suggested different ways to read questions, to note-take and I reminded her about the importance of context clues. We reviewed phrases like however, otherwise, different from, before this, on the other hand. She is a very fast and smart girl, but I do see the comprehension difficulties and she does too.

1 comment:

  1. Focusing on the ambiguity tolerance is a good idea, and something I've been striving to incorporate with my own tutoring partners. As well, the useful phrases section of grammar books is a good supplement to English flow exercises, especially oriented with speaking activities, and is something that I've tried to inform my conversation partner for various uses.

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